NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

MORNING REPORT

Thursday, February 21, 2013

INCIDENTS

Grand Canyon NP

Resident Pleads Guilty To Attacks On Rangers, Residents

On December 14th, rangers responded to a call of a drunken and aggressive man at a trailer park within Grand Canyon. He had locked his significant other out of her home after he pulled her off her bed and punched her in the head. He then assaulted a Xanterra security officer after he was called to help the woman get back into her home. When rangers arrived on scene, the man became verbally and physically uncooperative and was arrested and placed in a patrol vehicle. While being loaded into the cruiser, he spit into the mouth of a ranger and threatened to return to the park to kill the rangers and their families. Agents from the Investigative Services Branch opened a joint investigation into the incident with rangers. The next day a criminal complaint was filed by an ISB special agent with the U.S. magistrate's court in Flagstaff. The criminal complaint charged the man with three felonies and five misdemeanors. Last month, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a period of incarceration, supervised release, and a number of other conditions. [Investigative Services Branch]

Yosemite NP

Former Employee Pleads Guilty To Theft Of Government Funds

M.A.W., 61, of Midpines, pleaded guilty on February 4th to theft of government property from the park. The case was investigated by Investigative Services Branch special agents and prosecuted by assistant U.S. attorneys from the Eastern District of California. According to documents filed in the case, M.A.W. was employed by Yosemite National Park between October 2008 and June 2009. During that time, she charged $32,820 in personal expenses to government credit cards that had been issued to her for making official government purchases. M.A.W.'s sentencing hearing will be held on April 15th. She faces a maximum sentence of ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine. [United States Attorney's Office, Eastern District of California]

OTHER NEWS

The following stories are among those in today's edition of InsideNPS. To see the full text, including images, NPS employees should go to the InsideNPS home page ( HYPERLINK "http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index" http://inside.nps.gov/index.cfm?handler=index). Non-NPS employees can see most of them on the NPS Digest page ( HYPERLINK "http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/" http://home.nps.gov/applications/digest/):

National Register of Historic Places - The house where author Jack Kerouac lived in Florida has been placed on the National Register. It was while living in this house that he received instant fame for the publication of his bestselling novel, On the Road.

Park Facility Management Division - On February 19th, the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program awards were announced. Eleven parks and six partners will receive a total of more than $7 million in funding.

NPS Alumni - Roger Rector II, 51, son of retired superintendent Roger Rector and his wife Betty, passed away last weekend in Tucson, Arizona.

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The Morning Report is a publication of the Division of Law Enforcement, Security and Emergency Services, Washington Office, produced by the Office of Communications with the support of the Office of the Associate Director for Information Resources. Edited by Bill Halainen ( HYPERLINK "mailto:Bill_Halainen@nps.gov" Bill_Halainen@nps.gov).

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